In this video, I'll dive deep into the groundbreaking autonomous agent capabilities within Microsoft Copilot Studio. Learn how to build AI agents that can proactively complete tasks, handle complex requests, and even follow up on conversations – all without constant human intervention!
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Key Takeaways:
Autonomous Agents: Understand the power of AI agents that can work independently.
Copilot Studio: Master the capabilities within Microsoft's platform for building and managing bots.
Cloud Flows: Learn how Power Automate flows trigger and enable autonomous agent behavior.
AI Orchestration: See how actions and knowledge sources are combined to achieve complex goals.
Troubleshooting: Identify and resolve common errors that may occur with your Copilot Studio agent.
Conversation ID: How to use the conversation ID to provide context to your conversations.
(0:00) Intro: Get ready for a powerful demo of Copilot Studio's autonomous agent feature.
(0:38) What Can My Agent Do?: Explore the actions and capabilities of a sample autonomous agent, including email sending, SharePoint list manipulation, and OData queries.
(2:26) Conversation Activity in Copilot Studio: Understand the difference between traditional chatbot interactions and the new automated (autonomous) conversations.
(3:38) Traditional Chatbot Experience: See a quick example of the chatbot experience using the test chat panel.
(4:14) The Agent Instructions: Learn how to craft specific instructions that guide your agent's behavior and task orchestration.
(5:02) Understanding the Cost: A quick discussion around how the autonomous agents are charged, what the current pricing model is (as of video creation).
(6:06) Agent Generated Email: See an example of an email sent automatically by our Copilot Studio agent.
(6:29) A Demo of the Autonomous Agent: Witness a live demonstration of an autonomous agent processing an email request, answering questions, and sending a personalized response.
(10:00) Continuing the Autonomous Conversation: Discover how to use the conversation ID to maintain context and continue conversations seamlessly, creating more meaningful interactions.
(12:50) Troubleshooting Autonomous Agents: Avoid common pitfalls! Learn from my mistakes and find tips on setting up triggers, credentials and debugging your autonomous agents effectively.
(13:06) Publish Your Agent: Important note that publishing is key to the Autonomous Agents working correctly.
(13:38) Check Trigger Credentials: Checking credentials to make sure actions within the agent run correctly.
(13:45) Check Action and Flow Connections: Checking that all connections have maker credentials.
(14:41) Activity Map Transcript - Debugging: Use the transcript to troubleshoot and find errors within your Agent setup.
(15:07) Event Triggers for Autonomous Agent: Where do the triggers come from and how to retest previously run triggers.
(16:00) Top Tips Recap: Recap of top tips to follow when creating autonomous agents.
(16:25) Building a Trigger Event and Cloud Flow: Building a cloud flow from scratch and adding a manual trigger.
(18:57) Testing the Cloud Flow with Input Parameters: How to add parameters into the flow for better testing.
(20:20) Using the Conversation ID via the Cloud Flow: Learn how the conversation ID is picked up and added to the cloud flow.
(21:18) Discussing the benefits of the Conversation ID: The benefits of using conversation IDs and how this can be useful in scenarios.
(21:57) Outtro: Final thoughts and call to actions.
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